The agreed truce between Government and opposition last Wednesday has broken. This truce consisted basically in stopping the political attacks while the effects of La Niña, which has caused more than 50 deaths in Bolivia, persisted. But on Monday, Evo has called to "use the weapons" to defend his Government and national unity: "I am not an enemy of the autonomies, but I am an enemy of the Bolivia's division.Opposing the beginning of the process to have a referendum on the Autonomic Statute of Santa Cruz, the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, asked the cocaleros to move themselves for the unity of the country and stated that some social organizations (which he did not identify) have asked him for weapons to defend the progress of change that his Government is pushing. The President cautioned everyone that the movements linked to Movement to Socialism (MAS, the Morales' party) are ready for the job."I have received phone calls during the night, from the altiplano (the poorest zone in Bolivia, and where Morales has more support), from workers, from Chapare and from other regions, that tell me: "Colleague Evo, as a leader you has earned respect, so as President, earn that too. On the contrary, give us weapons to earn you respect". At the same time, he added: "I feel this people are ready to defend the process of change". The President also told the Armed Forces that they should repel every separatist movement and asked the Supreme Court to resolve about the legality of the electoral process begun by the opposition's prefets.

An American scholar said Friday that an official at the U.S. Embassy asked him to keep tabs on Venezuelan and Cuban workers in Bolivia. Washington said that any such request would be an error and against U.S. policy."I was shocked," Fulbright scholar Alex van Schaick told The Associated Press. "I mean, this man's asking me to spy for the U.S. government." Van Schaick is one of six Fulbright scholars doing research in the country.

****This call for using weapons against the opposition has not even been considered as news by great/global MSM. But both MSNBC and BBC Mundo had published the accusation of one Fulbright student in Bolivia, who said that he was "asked to spy for Washington the Cuban and Venezuelan workers in Bolivia". US Department of State stated that "any of these measures would be an error and against US policy".

But the curious thing is that any of these MSM reported about the accusation made by Reporters without Borders, against Bolivian Police of spying several opposition members (including the leader of the main opposition party, José Quiroga, from Podemos) and one very critical journalist. This doesn't diminish the importance of Mr. van Shaick's accusation, but shows once again the partiality of the MSM when publishing news.